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Oriana Chiappa
@orianachiappa.bsky.social
(she/her) PhD candidate at @UGent and @VUBrussel. Currently looking into cremated remains of the Balearic Islands🧪🔥🦷🦴🏝️
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🗣️ New paper! 🗣️

The mobility patterns of the population of Gallo-Roman Tienen (Belgium) are keeping you up at night? Wondering if there is more than mobility reflected in these 87Sr/86Sr results? This is very relatable, and conveniently, I have the right paper for you! It's accessible right there 👇
kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me
September 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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🧵 ¿Sabías que los niños aborígenes canarios también dejaron huella? Si como a mi, te surgen todas estas dudas sobre la niñez aborigen, igual te interesa esto 👇🏼
#HiloTesis
📸 Ilustración generada por IA
@crueuniversidades.bsky.social
@filarramendi.bsky.social
@cienciaull.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Seguro que se te ha pasado por la cabeza alguna vez si prefieres que te cremen o te entierren ¿a que sí? ¿Sabes que llevamos miles de años eligiendo entre las dos opciones? ¿Y que optar por una u otra tiene significados diferentes? Quédate en este #HiloTesis #UGR
@crueuniversidades.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It was wonderful to be in Thessaloniki ❤️‍🔥
Thank Sevi and #TEFRA for inviting us!
May 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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This weekend our team traveled to Thessaloniki to celebrate the end of the #TEFRA project with two days of exciting conferences! 🔥🔥
May 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Paper Alert 🔥
Want to learn more about Roman cremations?
Can’t sleep because you keep thinking about how the Romans burned their dead?
Then don't miss our latest paper & download it for free here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzX5,rVDBnN…
April 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🚨 New paper alert! 🚨
(1/5) Excited to share that our latest paper on dicotyledon phytoliths in NW Europe can now be found here! 🌱🔬 This study fills a gap by documenting and analyzing phytoliths from 74 dicot species.

If you want a free access link to the paper, contact us! 📩
Phytoliths in dicotyledons occurring in Northwest Europe: establishing a baseline
AbstractBackground and Aims. The absence of a modern plant-based ‘dicotyledon’ phytolith reference baseline impedes the accurate interpretation of fossil p
academic.oup.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Thrilled to finally share this publication based on my master's thesis.
Our study uses #LEH to examine how urban living in postmedieval Netherlands impacted infant and maternal health.🦷🤰👶
Check it out #openaccess here 👇https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oa.3393
The Effects of Urban Living on Child, Infant, and Maternal Health: A Comparative Study of Linear Enamel Hypoplasia Between Two Dutch Postmedieval Populations
Substantial research has been done assessing health inequalities between rural and urban contexts in the low countries; however, fewer studies have considered the effect of urban living on non-adults...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Massive congrats to @Christophe-fire.bsky.social on winning a VUB Brussel Excellent PhD Supervisor Award. Your support and enthusiasm mean the 🌍 to the team 🔥

@amgc-vub.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Abstract submissions are now open! Join us on #session15 at the #EAA in Belgrade to talk about cremations🔥🔥🔥
December 21, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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The first Belgium’s strontium isoscape is out now!
Amanda Sengeløv & the team provide the first 604 plant samples from 220 locations, with more data coming soon!

Paper here👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dataset available on @isoarch.bsky.social 👇https://doi.org/10.48530/ISOARCH.2024.001
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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Hello, we are the Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab, a team based at VUB researching archaeological mobility, diet, health, cremation conditions, plants, animals and more from all around the 🌍 and from the Neolithic to the present. 🦴⚱️🔥🦷🗺👩‍🔬

Follow us and our team here:

go.bsky.app/Cg378Ev
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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New BB-LAB paper out 👍🏻 Marta Hlad and the team identified and characterised patterns in cremation analysis practices through an online survey of those working on cremated human remains 👇
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation
Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research...
journals.plos.org
December 3, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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Fun day engaging with kids and adults explaining our research on Judith of Flanders. @archeosugent.bsky.social #dvdw2024
November 24, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Come find Judith at De Krook! #DVDW2024
@archeosugent.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Hey there bluesky archaeo people, I'm taking this fresh start to introduce myself with a recap of my year so far.
This year I started my PhD adventure at UGent and the VUB to learn about funerary rituals and mobility patterns of the Balearic Islands through archaeometric methods
🏝️🦴🧪👩‍🔬.
November 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM